December
Friday, December 7 1st Friday Openings at participating galleries William Matthews Gallery Opening reception, 5-8pm William Matthews, Long Distance. Please RSVP to becky@williammatthewsstudio.com. Through January 31	William Matthews Gallery William Matthews Long Distance Watercolor. Through January 31	William Matthews Gallery William Matthews Watercolor. Through January 31
Saturday Dec 8 Saks Galleries Cherry Creek 11am-3pm, Holiday show in conjunction with Cherry Creek North's Winter Fest. There will be demos and the Original Dickens Carolers. It is a very fun day in Cherry Creek. Winter Fest details Through Dec 31	Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Peggy McGivern Mist Mixed media, 12 x 12 Through Dec 31	Saks Galleries Cherry Creek Walt Gonske Mid November Day Oil, 15 x 18 Through Dec 31
Friday, December 14 David B. Smith Gallery Opening Reception, 6 -8 pm Chimera, the third solo exhibition of new works by San Diego-based artist Laura Ball. Adeptly harnessing musings of the subconscious mind, Ball utilizes recognizable yet otherworldly imagery. Mythological creatures, swirling parrot wings, and fantastical flora join together and are pulled apart as their forms metamorphose, lending meaning to the title of the exhibition. Through January 26		David B. Smith Gallery Laura Ball Tree of Knowledge (Vaq Tree) 2018 Watercolor, graphite 51.5 x 45 in Through January 26
Friday, December 21 3rd Friday Openings at participating galleries
January
Friday, January 11 Walker Fine Art  Artist's reception, 5-9 pm Horizons, featuring: Laura Guese, Patricia Finley, Melanie Grein, Derrick Breidenthal, George Kozmon, and Barbara Sorensen. Atmospheric painting and earthly sculpture come together to create a dreamlike tranquility in the relationship of space and line. In this group exhibition, Walker Fine Art explores contemporary landscapes as expressed through various styles and mediums. Manipulating and layering to achieve abstraction tempered with realism, these artists capture the essence of nature through the broad use of horizon lines. Through March 2 Visions West Contemporary Opening reception,  6-8 pm A group exhibition, What Lies Ahead, with works by John Defeo, June Glasson, Future Retrieval, Carly Glovinski, Mathew Mullins, Jennifer Nehrbass, Zemer Peled, and Julie Buffalohead. The title of this exhibition is descriptive not only of the work being shown, but also the future of Visions West Contemporary. This show highlights the new relationships being formed with the featured artists and the idea of looking forward to what lies ahead. Through February 23 William Havu Gallery Opening Reception, 6 -9 pm Woven, a solo exhibition by bronze sculptor, Yoshitomo Saito. Presented on the mezzanine will be a new body of smoke drawings by Dennis Lee Mitchell. Through March 2	Walker Fine Art  Derrick Breidenthal Dialated 36 x 38 inches Through March 2 Walker Fine Art  George Kozmon Vermillion Through March 2 Visions West Contemporary June Glasson Child, 2018 Gouache, pencil, ink on paper 30 x 22 inches Through February 23 William Havu Gallery Yoshitomo Saito Rolling Bamboo Loop Bronze (unique), 34” x 33” x 6” Through March 2	Walker Fine Art  Patricia Finley Precipitous 24 x 60  inches Through March 2 Walker Fine Art  Melanie Grein Through March 2 Walker Fine Art  Laura Guese Danslecrepuscule 16 x 16 inches Through March 2 Walker Fine Art  Barbara Sorensen Ledge Through March 2 William Havu Gallery Dennis Lee Mitchell Untitled Smoke on paper, 34” x 34”. Through March 2
Thursday, January 17 Robischon Gallery Artist's Receptiont, 6-8pm Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Boy: Witness and Marker, 2003-2018. This is the first solo exhibition of this highly acclaimed Cuban-born artist and author. The extensive presentation features painting, photography and sculpture investigating Martínez Celaya’s re-emerging theme of a boy and the psychic or philosophical forces which surround. The new and earlier select works reflect a poetic exploration into the nature of vulnerability, power, confidence and fear, while allowing the physicality of each medium employed – oil and wax, bronze, watercolor, wood, tar and straw – to carry with it a sense of the ineffable. Through March 9		Robischon Gallery The Prince 201  Oil and wax on canvas 66 x 50 inches Through March 9
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GALLERY LISTINGS Abend Gallery Note our new address 1412 Wazee Street, Denver, CO 80202    Map 303.355.0950 phone 800.288.3726 toll free website: www.abendgallery.com Hours: Tue-Sat 10-6, Sun 11am-4 Continuing: After Dark, a new body of large works by Lindsey Kustusch debuting at the SugarCube Building at 1555 Blake St  map   David B. Smith Gallery  1543 A Wazee Sgtreet Denver, CO 80202  map phone:    303.893.4234 fax:         877.893.4234 website:  http://davidbsmithgallery.com Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6, and by appointment Friday, December 14 Opening Reception, 6 -8 pm Chimera, the third solo exhibition of new works by San Diego-based artist Laura Ball. Adeptly harnessing musings of the subconscious mind, Ball utilizes recognizable yet otherworldly imagery. Mythological creatures, swirling parrot wings, and fantastical flora join together and are pulled apart as their forms metamorphose, lending meaning to the title of the exhibition. Through January 26   David Cook Fine Art Maggie Ross, Director 1637 Wazee Street Denver, Colorado 80202    map Phone:      303.623.8181 Website:    www.davidcookfineart.com Hours:      10:30 - 6:00 Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment Continuing: Premier Native American Jewelry Trunk Show. We are pleased to announce our annual holiday pop-up featuring premier 19th and 20th century Navajo, Pueblo, and Hopi jewelry, textiles, and pottery. Through January 5th (or until sold out)   Gallery 1261  LLC note our new address: 1412 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202 map   phone: 303.571.1261 website:   www.gallery1261.com Hours:     Tue - Sat: 12-6pm Exhibition to be announced   GALLERY M  180 Cook St, Suite 101   map Denver, CO 80206 phone:    303-331-8400 website:  www.gallerym.com Hours:    By Appointment Daily, Tue-Sat. GALLERY M specializes in 20th century photojournalism and social documentary. LIFE photojournalists including Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Ralph Morse and others are always on display and available Exhibition to be announced   Goodwin Fine Art Tine Goodwin, Director/Owner 1255 Delaware Street    Map Denver CO 80204 phone:    303.573.1255 website:  www.goodwinfineart.com   Hours:   Tuesday - Friday 11-6, Saturday 11-5 Continuing: Coalesce, In Celebration of Friends of the Gallery and Gallery Artists: Alpert + Kahn, Buff Elting, Mia Mulvey, Andrew Beckham, Danae Falliers, Jennifer Nehrbass, Andy Berg, Sharon Feder, Margaret Pettee Olsen, Brenda, Biondo Carol Golemboski, Martha Russo, Kate Breakey, Patti Hallock, Kimberlee Sullivan, Beau Carey, David Hicks, Debra Van Tuinen, Matt Christie, Jill Hadley, Hooper Mark Villarreal Linda Connor Shawn Huckins Marcia Weese Rebecca Cuming Tshai Johnson Ashley Eliza Williams, Lanny DeVuono, and Patrick Marold. Through December 22 K Contemporary  Doug Kacena Co-Owner / Director 1412 Wazee St , Denver, CO 80202   map phone:     303-590-9800 cell:         720-296-7180 website:   https://kcontemporaryart.com Hours:     Tuesday – Saturday, 12 pm – 6 pm or by appointment Exhibition to be announced   Mai Wyn Fine Art 744 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO, 80204    map phone:    303-893-4182 website:   www.maiwyn.com Hours:     Hours:     Thursday - Saturday 11-5, Sunday 12-4. Open 1st Fridays until 10pm丨3rd Fridays until 8pm and by appointment Continuing: Kim Harrell, Back to the Garden, solo exhibition of sculpture and functional silver works. A celebration of our connectedness to Earth, this exhibition showcases Harrell’s signature minimalist style emphasizing texture, line and material.  Kim Harrell is a silversmith and jewelry artist based in Aurora. Through December 1   Michael Warren Contemporary    Mike McClung and Warren Campbell, owners 760 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204  map gallery:     303-635-6255 cell:         303-667-2447 website:   www.michaelwarrencontemporary.com Hours:     Tues-Sat 11am-6 pm or by appointment Continuing: The Water Within, new works by Etsuko Ichikawa, showcasing a recent body of glass works. She has been recreating ancient Jōmon vessels and figurines, casting them with uranium glass. Her tangential series of blown uranium glass orbs and her new series of pyrographs with watercolor round out the exhibition. We find this series to be very compelling - she was so emotionally affected by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and subsequently her examination of the nuclear clean-up at the Hanford site that she is now exploring cultural legacy as told through the Jōmon pottery which she is recreates using uranium glass. Through December 1   Plinth Gallery Owner:  Jonathan Kaplan 3520 Brighton Blvd Denver, Colorado 80216    map phone:     303-295-0717 website:   www.plinthgallery.com Hours:     Thursday -Saturday, 12pm-5pm, and other times by appointment Continuing: Jim Connell: New Ceramic Work. For our final exhibition of 2018, Plinth Gallery is pleased to present the ceramic work of Jim Connell. He creates ceramic pieces in unusual sizes and shapes but his process is firmly grounded in traditional techniques of pottery making. Connell’s vessels are generally wheel-thrown. The thick walls are paddled and carved, producing a secondary, three-dimensional surface. After glazing a firing, many of the pieces are sand blasted and the resulting surface adds a further textural element. Connell credits his inspiration to both nature and history. His love of Chinese ceramics include pottery from the prehistoric Neolithic period, the Tan and Sung Dynasties. Through December 22

Plus Gallery
Owner: Ivar Zeile
Private Dealer

website:  www.plusgallery.com

Exhibition to be announced
 

 
Robischon Gallery
1740 Wazee St.
Denver, CO.  80202    Map
phone:  303.298.7788
fax:       303.298.7799

web:  www.robischongallery.com

Hours:  Tuesday - Saturday 11am to 6pm Mondays
            by appointment. Adjacent Free Parking until 6pm

Continuing:
Three Concurrent Solo Exhibitions in Abstraction by American painters Deborah Dancy (CT), Gary Komarin (NY) and Tom Lieber (CA). The artists featured distinctively pursue a range of vocabularies in abstract painting from the provisional to third-generation Abstract Expressionism while contributing to the ever-evolving contemporary dialogue. With Dancy’s gritty structures and gestural mark, Komarin’s colorful, animated line and unexpected commingling forms and Lieber’s high-velocity brushwork in grand scale, the works on view offer insight into the terrain of the psychological as well as the physicality of paint. Through varied line and surface, Dancy, Komarin and Lieber confidently embrace the unassuming beauty and awkwardness of paradox, while recognizing both the gravitas of complexity and the exuberance of the unencumbered mark.
January 5, 2019

Thursday, January 17
Opening Reception for the Artist, 6-8pm
Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Boy: Witness and Marker, 2003-2018. This is the first solo exhibition of this highly acclaimed Cuban-born artist and author. The extensive presentation features painting, photography and sculpture investigating Martínez Celaya’s re-emerging theme of a boy and the psychic or philosophical forces which surround. The new and earlier select works reflect a poetic exploration into the nature of vulnerability, power, confidence and fear, while allowing the physicality of each medium employed – oil and wax, bronze, watercolor, wood, tar and straw – to carry with it a sense of the ineffable.
 

Rule Gallery
Valerie Santerli, Owner/Director
Rachel Beitz, Owner/CFO
530 Santa Fe Dr,
Denver CO
and
204 E San Antonio St,
Marfa TX

phone:    303-800-6776

website:  https://rulegallery.com

Denver hours:  Tues-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm and by appointment

Continuing:
Double Take, paintings by John Fudge
 

Space Gallery
765 Santa Fe Drive     Map
Denver, 80204
phone:    720-904-1088

website:  www.spacegallery.org
Hours: Wed-Sat 1pm-6pm or by appointment

Continuing:
Wonderland  Exhibition, featuring new work by Karine Léger, Karen Scharer, and Jeff Glode Wise. Using various materials, shapes and colors, these artists create a wonderland of visual bliss and dreamlike contemplation.

Through January 5
 

Tansey Contemporary
1743 Wazee Street Suite 150
Denver. 80203    map
phone:   720-596-4243

website:  www.tanseycontemporary.com
Hours: Tues-Saturday 11am - 5pm

Continuing:
Avital Sheffer, a solo exhibition of the Israeli-Australian ceramic artist with fifteen works in her signature style. Sheffer’s voluminous earthenware clay vessels reflect her lifelong engagement with Middle Eastern cultures, history, and designs as well as her Jewish heritage. Her works, with their unique aesthetic at once contemporary and historical, explore materiality, spirituality, origins, language, and memory. The titles of her work reference ancient Greek words, locations in the West Bank, and constellations to name a few.
Through January 5
 

Visions West Contemporary
Director:  Nikki Todd
2605 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205  map
phone:    303.292.0909

website:    www.visionswestgallery.com
hours:    Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 pm or by appointment
Note our new address

Continuing:
Fire and Water, a collaborative show between artists Ralph Wiegmann and Suzanne Truman. The patterns, sensations and rhythms of nature have been an early influence on the art of both Wiegmann and Truman. The two artists have both experienced a profound sense of awe and appreciation throughout their lives in various natural settings. The patterns of the vast natural landscape and geological striations compelled the two artists to explore their own relationships with the land through abstraction. Wiegmann speaks about his work as subconscious expression which arises through the process of making. The result of which is a distillation of experiences and memories and recurring rhythms.
Through January 5

Friday, January 11
Opening reception,  6-8 pm
A group exhibition, What Lies Ahead, with works by John Defeo, June Glasson, Future Retrieval, Carly Glovinski, Mathew Mullins, Jennifer Nehrbass, Zemer Peled, and Julie Buffalohead. The title of this exhibition is descriptive not only of the work being shown, but also the future of Visions West Contemporary. This show highlights the new relationships being formed with the featured artists and the idea of looking forward to what lies ahead.
Through February 23